Events in the year 1844 in Germany.
Incumbents King of Bavaria – Ludwig I King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg Grand Duke of Baden – Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden
Events 15 March – opening of Gößnitz station
Undated Rabbinical Conference of Brunswick
Establishments Freiburger Turnerschaft von 1844 Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Waggonfabrik Fuchs
Births 3 January – Hermann Eggert, German architect (died 1920) 16 January – Paul Singer, German politician (died 1911) 14 February – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (died 1915) 10 March – Karl Gutbrod, German judge (died 1905) 25 March – Adolf Engler, German botanist (died 1930) 3 April – Georg Ratzinger, priest and politician (died 1899) 30 April – Carl von Thieme, German banker (died 1924) 17 May – Julius Wellhausen, biblical scholar (died 1918) 6 August – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (died 1900) 30 August – Friedrich Ratzel, German geographer and ethnographer (died 1904) 13 September – Ludwig von Falkenhausen, German general (died 1936) 15 October – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist (died 1900) 24 November – Friedrich Jolly, neurologist (died 1904) 25 November – Carl Benz, German engine designer and automobile engineer (died 1929)
Deaths 8 March – Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl, pastellist (born 1784) 11 May – Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs, apothecary and natural history collector (born 1792) 16 May – Joseph Knauer, Bishop of Wroclaw (born 1764)Franz Heinrich Reusch: Knauer, Joseph. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 269 f, https://de.m.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Knauer,_Joseph. 4 August – Christian Friedrich Illgen, Protestant theologian (born 1786)
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